{"id":65186,"date":"2026-08-31T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=65186"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:00:16","slug":"narrating-phone-use-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/narrating-phone-use-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media \u2014 and my children have never been happier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading yet another one of the countless articles and opinion pieces from people discovering that it&#8217;s good not to spend the whole day glued to their phone, I picked up an ~interesting technique. When Anna Mathur is with her kids and needs to do something on her phone, she \u201cannounces\u201d the action:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One habit that helped was narrating my phone use out loud. When I pick it up in front of the kids, I say: \u201cI\u2019m just adding bananas to the shopping.\u201d It keeps me accountable, because once I\u2019ve said it, I do that one thing and put it down. And it tells my children that I\u2019m not disappearing, as I used to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it applies to adult-only situations too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading yet another one of the countless articles and opinion pieces from people discovering that it&#8217;s good not to spend the whole day glued to their phone, I picked up an ~interesting technique. When Anna Mathur is with her kids and needs to do something on her phone, she \u201cannounces\u201d the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=65178"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[775,12,1557,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65187,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65186\/revisions\/65187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}